Question 19 : What important function will a database serve in an online based advocacy campaign?

Store partners contact addresses

Store graphic posters of your messages

Budgets of your advocacy campaign

Letters and petitions of your campaign

Question 20 : When is sending letters most effective as a form of conveying your advocacy message

When you want to inform and discuss advocacy issues with community members

Whenever the issue is most sensitive

When informing and inviting local representative or parliamentarians to a meeting

When communicating with people you know very well

Question 21 : Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Public Relations is the act of managing information flow between an organization and the public

Appreciate the significance of PR in raising public awareness

Learn how to use cost effective media campaigns

Show disapproval for commercial and proprietary software

Question 23 : With regard to Advocacy work, what is external networking?

Networking with partners outside your country for purpose of gaining support for your work

Process of asking people you know outside your organization for information about your target audience

Not involving your own staff in the expensive work of getting information

Asking people you don’t know for information about your target audience

Question 24 : Which of the following statement could be said to be untrue about Public Relations

You have creative control on what goes into the advert in the paper

The PR exposure you receive is only circulated once

An editor won't publish your same press release three or four times in their papers.

Question 25 : What does Trademark in copyright law intended to protect?

Software Piracy

Product Abuse

Rights of Trademark owner

Product consumers/users

Question 26 : Which one of the following is true?

National events such as World Telecommunication day is reserved specifically for ICT Advocacy

For FLOSS Advocacy to succeed it must emphasize the issue of costs

Media Relations is same as Media Advocacy

There is a fairly good level of FLOSS knowledge among ICT techs

Question 27 : What is Advocacy?

Question 28 : In which of the following situation would issuing a Press Statement be most appropriate

When announcing promotion for a staff member

Receiving a prestigious award for your products

When announcing dates for company annual general meeting

When there has been theft in the organization

Question 29 : According to the 5Ps of Branding, People (ie. your own staff) could harm your brand. Mention one way in which they could do so?

Question 30 : As advocacy organizers we are advised to learn more about what our target audiences know about the issue(s). Specifically, why is this so important?

In order to know if they support you

To know what new additional information they may need

In order to segregate the target audience

To establish their capacity to comprehend your issues

Question 31 : What policy vehicle at the discretion of an executive arm of government is used to halt unwanted legislation?

Vetoes

Budgets

Rules

Regulation

Question 32 : FOSS projects aim (at least in theory) to get as many programmers on board as possible, to get the software developed. This being the case, why would a project seek to control usage of the name of the

To protect Interest of the Community of Developers

To avoid abuse of software by users

To protect interest of users

To encourage innovation

Question 33 : Why are special events such as Software Freedom Day an important occasion for small FLOSS business to promote their services, products?

Its when the worlds’ leading companies clinch big software contracts

That is when world and national attention is focused on issues relating to software development

That is when Government feels obliged to support software developers

That is when Government feels obliged to support software developers

Question 34 : Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Legislative advocacy is illegal

Protest is a form of advocacy

Simple and clear advocacy messages render themselves to less misinterpretation

Lobbying as a form of advocacy is usually effective when soliciting individual or a small group influence.

Question 35 : Mention one social factor that could influence Critical Mass positively or negatively

Question 36 : What is product branding?

Garnishing company logo on your products and services

Is the proprietary visual, emotional, rational, and cultural image that you associate with a Company or a product

Constantly displaying and associating your products with other popular products

An appealing slogan often used to accompany your product advertisement

Question 37 : Emails are effective tools in an online advocacy campaign. Which one of the arguments in the context of a typical African society, is of least concern to any one planning to undertake online advocacy.

High levels of computer illiteracy

Postal mail and not email is still by far the most used form of communication by majority of rural poor.

Not many people access email on regular basis

Advocacy emails from unknown senders may be treated as unsolicited mail or spam

Question 38 : External Networking posses a number of challenges for small business, which one of the following is a small FLOSS business likely to face?

Building sufficient confidence among big and existing partners in a network

Keep up with the maintenance of partner database

Printing and distributing enough business cards at meetings

Finding right reasons for joining and remaining in a network

Question 39 : Which is the most important first step in an advocacy campaign?

Good understanding of your issue(s) and its potential benefits to a larger community

Knowledge of the legislative process

Knowledge of your sector

Knowledge of potential advocacy partners

Question 40 : Which one of the following is not a necessary task in a typical media advocacy campaign?